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No. 233,496. Patented Oct. 19,1880.

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P. PIS O H E R.

Button Shoe.

Nd. 233,496. Patented Oct. 19,1880.

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\r any UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICEQ PHILIPP FISCHER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO CORNELIUS LOUCKS, OF SAME PLACE.

BUTTON-SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,496, dated October 19, 1880.

Application filed July 22, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIPP FISCHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Button-Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in a button-shoe in which the whole upper is formed of two pieces of stock having certain novel features, as hereinafter fully explained, and pointed out in the claim.

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figures 1 and 2 are side views of a shoe made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 3 illustrates the form of back or quarters, and Fig. 4 illustrates the form of front piece of the shoe.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

The letters A B designate the two pieces of stock composing the upper. The front piece, A, has the same contour and the same dimensions on both sides of the shoe, and it comprises a vamp, 0, extending to the back of the shoe, and a leg-front, d, one edge of which forms the button fly or flap 6, while the back piece, B, constitutes the leg proper or quarter. The leg-front, d, is attached to the back piece, B, on one side of the shoe by a seam, which is curved from the top toward thefront of the shoe, as atf, to lessen the liability of its ripping, but it is left detached on the opposite side of the shoe to produce the button-fly e. The vamp c is attached to the back piece, B, on both sides of the shoe, and the two ends thereof are united at the back of the shoe by a vertical seam, as at g. One side or edge of the back piece, B, extends under the buttonfly 0 to receive the shoe-buttons, the other side or edge thereof terminating along the seam f.

Both the front andback pieces, A B, are

(ModeL) crimped, the one along the line of the front of the shoe and the other along the line of the back thereof; and inasmuch as these lines extend substantially along the middle of the pieces thecrimpingoperation can be performed with the greatest possible facility.

In carrying out my invention I produce the two pieces A B, which are cut out in the most economical manner from the best part of an ordinary skin, and afterward crimped so as to assume the form shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the pieces thus represented being ready for lasting. In this shoe the vamp continues to the back of the shoe, and is thus left without a seam, except at the back, where the seam is covered by the counter, so that it is not liable to hurt the foot; also, I avoid a waste of material by making the vamp in two pieces united at the sides of the shoe.

Broadly considered, it is not new to make a shoe-upper of two pieces of stock, and prior to my invention a button-shoe has been made with the vamp, quarters, and stays in one piece, and with a onepiece foxing provided with a button-flap.

What I claim, therefore, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an improved article of manufacture, a button-shoe consisting of two pieces of stock, A B, the piece B being crimped, as described, and adapted to form the back piece or quarter, and the piece A being adapted to form in one piece the continuous vamp c, the leg-front d, and the button-fly e, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PHILIPP FISCHER.

Witnesses:

J. VAN SANTVOORD, OHAs. WAHLERS. 

